50 Best Linux Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent linux companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 138 companies tracked on Fsome.

138
Total Companies
$663.8M
Total Funding
$4.8M
Avg Funding
San Francisco
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Vali Cyber
Vali Cyber is a cyber security company that offers hypervisor ransomware protect…
Charlottesville 11 - 50 $19.6M Series Unknown 2025-08-26
2
Eficode
Eficode is a DevOps, software, automation, and design company.
Helsinki 501 - 1K $7.4M Series Unknown 2018-04-11
3
Red Hat
Red Hat is a software company that offers enterprise open-source software soluti…
Raleigh c 10001 max Corporate Round 1999-03-09
4
DeviceTotal
DeviceTotal is a SaaS platform that provides risk management for any un-agentabl…
Tel Aviv-yafo 11 - 50 $6.0M Seed 2021-08-13
5
Cumulus Networks
Cumulus Networks is a software company that designs and sells Linux operating sy…
Mountain View 101 - 250 $134.0M Series D 2018-01-22
6
Capsule8
High-performance attack protection for Linux production environments – whether c…
Brooklyn 11 - 50 $30.0M Series B 2019-08-07
7
Rightware
Rightware provides graphical user interface solutions for in-mobile, automotive,…
Espoo 51 - 100 $77.5M Corporate Round 2016-12-19
8
Nexenta Systems
Nexenta's Open Source Driven Software-Defined Storage delivers a scalable, cloud…
Santa Clara 101 - 250 $141.5M Corporate Round 2017-12-04
9
Cmd
Cmd allows organizations to intuitively monitor and control user interaction wit…
Vancouver 11 - 50 $21.0M Series B 2019-02-26
10
AvaloniaUI
Cross-platform UI frameworks.
Tallinn 1 - 10 $3.0M Corporate Round 2025-07-02
11
Nestybox
Nestybox specializes in software development, linux, application development, OS…
San Jose 1 - 10 $125K Seed 2020-08-25
12
Android
Android provides an open-source mobile software platform that allows developers …
Palo Alto 51 - 100 Seed 2022-02-02
13
Cloud Linux Inc.
Best operating system for shared hosting
Princeton 251 - 500 Series Unknown 2011-01-01
14
Broadsign
Digital Signage Software Solutions
Montréal 251 - 500 Private Equity 2025-11-25
15
Dome9 Security
Dome9 Security is a cloud infrastructure security and compliance solution.
Mountain View 11 - 50 $29.3M Series C 2017-04-19
16
Toradex
Toradex specialises in ARM embedded computer module hardware and software that d…
Horw 51 - 100 $138K Pre Seed 2013-02-04
17
CoreOS
CoreOS builds industry-leading infrastructure software to securely run applicati…
San Francisco 51 - 100 $48.1M Series B 2016-05-09
18
Sandfly Security
Sandfly Security is Agengless Linux Security, providing compromise, intrusion de…
Christchurch 1 - 10 Seed 2024-03-24
19
Virtualmin
Virtualmin is a web hosting control panel for Linux and Berkeley Software Distri…
Mountain View 1 - 10 Seed 2007-01-01
20
TurboLinux
TurboLinux develops Linux software clustering technology.
Tokyo 51 - 100 $30.0M Series C 2000-10-11
21
S
Scali
Scali is a software development company focused on offering cluster management a…
Oslo, Norway 251 - 500 $20.2M Series Unknown 2006-11-08
22
Axigen
Axigen focuses on the development & distribution of innovative messaging solutio…
Bucharest, Romania 51 - 100 $4.9M Grant 2022-11-29
23
Overblog
OverBlog is a blogging platform enabling bloggers to aggregate their posts from …
Toulouse, France 11 - 50 Series A 2006-08-01
24
Maxthon
Maxthon is a global software company developing web browsers that give users a s…
San Francisco 101 - 250 Series Unknown 2006-05-18
25
hive01
hive01 is an online platform that offers community network for open source deskt…
Stuttgart 1 - 10 Undisclosed 2010-03-30
26
Voxel (Internap)
Voxel delivers on-demand hosting infrastructure services over its own IP network…
New York 11 - 50 $5.5M Series A 2011-03-24
27
Devicescape
Devicescape provides wireless software solutions integrated with intelligent net…
San Bruno 51 - 100 $34.0M Series Unknown 2013-02-14
28
SourceLabs
SourceLabs is a provider of a set of tools and services used to support open sou…
Seattle 1 - 10 $10.7M Series Unknown 2006-10-01
29
Lineo Solutions
Lineo Solutions provides embedded Linux solutions, improving the value of develo…
Shiojiri 101 - 250 Series Unknown 2019-07-26
30
Gazzang
Gazzang provides security solutions and operational diagnostics that help enterp…
Austin 11 - 50 $9.6M Series Unknown 2013-01-03
31
Kismatic
Kismatic offers enterprise support and production platform tooling for Kubernete…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $500K Seed 2015-11-20
32
Linbox
Linbox develops and markets technologies and services for ready-to-deploy networ…
Metz 11 - 50 $1.7M Series Unknown 2000-06-27
33
CrowdPC
CrowdPC offers a social commerce platform for managing shared data among employe…
Nashville 11 - 50 $780K Series A 2013-05-01
34
Avira
Avira provides IT-security antivirus software.
Tettnang 251 - 500 Debt Financing 2020-10-01
35
Splitted-Desktop Systems
Splitted-Desktop Systems is a company focused on the development of high-end set…
Aubin 11 - 50 Angel 2017-11-29
36
North by South
Open source near-shoring
San Francisco 11 - 50 Seed 2008-05-01